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Hefner, Miriam

Hefner, Miriam

Daughter of Esther and Yosef, was born on May 22, 1924 in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, where she attended a Hebrew-Polish school. In 1939 she immigrated to Israel. She studied Hebrew in March and after a short time moved from fifth grade to seventh grade and chose the real track. She was a diligent student, and so was every job. She had spared no effort to make her work Yaffa and perfect. When she was a student, she taught young people working in the Hashomer Hatzair branch in Haifa, and on vacation went with her classmates to a labor camp at Kibbutz Ein Shemer. In 1943 she graduated from the Gymnasium. World War II had not yet ended and Miriam enlisted in the British army and served in A.T.S. until the end of the war, first in Israel, Gaza, and then Italy, in the role of sketcher, work she liked most. At the end of 1946 she was discharged from the army and began to study at the Technion in Haifa in the Department of Architecture, where she volunteered to play a role in Haifa near the city of Haifa on February 16, 1948, . She was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.

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